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Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents
Savoir-faire and the Frame of the Cure, Part II
Paola Mieli

Friday, February 13, 2015, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, Room 408, New York, NY

Clinical understanding and the direction of the cure in psychoanalysis differ from those of all other clinical practices. Based on selected readings of Freud’s and Lacan’s texts, this seminar addresses the specificity of clinical analysis and its aim, and reflect on savoir-faire in the transference. (more…)

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The loss of life globally whether is is passengers in commercial aircrafts, soldiers and civilians in the middle east, mental health workers in hospitals, or just starving children and victims of infections – all seems uncontrollable. We all look for psychological explanations, and with that in mind I will give you my choices on the international psychoanalytic website as well as the list of contents. Perhaps we and the philosophers have an answer. Personally I am beginning to think that what is happening in the world is the primordial nature’s attempt to keep the human population down and manageable. Animals kill each other and survival of the fittest seems to have kept life on earth going. Any other ideas? (more…)

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Click here to read a review originally from Imitatio.org of A Dangerous Method written by Mark Anspach, anthropologist and the editor of Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire by René Girard (Stanford, 2004).

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Click Here to Read: Surface tensions: The founders of psychoanalysis made wonderful discoveries, whose implications may take several centuries to realise By Harry Eyres in the Financial Times on March 2, 2012.

Click Here to Read: ‘A Dangerous Method’: Misperceptions about Psychoanalysis By Joseph Burgo PhD on the Movies and Mental Helth Blog by by Joseph Burgo and Marla Estes on the PsycheCentral website.

Click Here to Read: Interview: Viggo Mortensen By Kate Whiting in the Yorkshire Post on February 3. 2012.

Click Here to Read: ‘A Dangerous Method’: Does Art Imitate Life? by Aaron Levin on the Psychiatric News website on February 3, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Viggo Mortensen on playing Sigmund Freud in his new film on the BBC News website on February 3, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Trailer trashViggo Mortensen channels the spirit of Sigmund Freud, Southwark says no to Brit grit, and let’s hear it (again) for Undefeated Jason Solomons in the The Observer on February4, 2012.

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